New York Classical Review of Paul Jacobs
Paul Jacobs recreated Mendelssohn’s 1840 Bach organ recital Tuesday night at the Church of St. Mary the Virgin.
Photo: Priscilla C. Scott
David Wright of New York Classical Review posted a wonderful review of Paul Jacobs.
Jacobs’ historic Bach recreation looks back in Leipzig
"The slashing opening mordent of the D minor Toccata and Fugue–the most famous note in the organ repertoire, a sound now heard from the Thomaskirche to Yankee Stadium–ripped across the nave of St. Mary’s Tuesday night like a challenge from the unseen organist in the choir loft. Jacobs made the Toccata’s fist-shaking rants and silences sound as radical as they must have to Mendelssohn’s Leipzig audience...Jacobs barreled ahead with the fugue, piquantly registering its lighter moments and spouting flames in the toccata-coda, to the audience’s delight."
